The following reasons are why I got rid of my Blackberry 8700… I’m going back to the pocket pc.

Pros for the Blackberry
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1. The text messages are shown with the response below… you can always follow the conversation
2. The key pad has a full key board, much easier to type
3. Quick OS… not lag
4. Rarely needs to be reset
5. Durable… I dropped it at least 100 times
6. Searching is easy and fast

Cons Against the Blackberry
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1. When it is reset, it takes forever to reboot (almost 5 minutes)
2. No touch screen
3. Doesn’t synchronize with outlook very well… funny error messages, asks hundreds of questions while syncing, etc.
4. I can’t access my call log while on the phone
5. Can’t take pictures
6. Can’t play mp3
7. Cannot effectively use MS Word or Excel
8. No Expansion Card
9. Limited Software Applications

      

Hundreds of startups are started as widgets (third party item that can be embedded in a web page) on myspace such as photobucket, rockyou, etc.

The new facebook platform will do the same thing except with a smaller audience (about a third of the size of myspace) but a better platform. It will be better integrated with the existing system (news feeds, note posting, etc) when compared to myspace. Myspace simply throws the widget on the page and has no way of tying different parts of the site together (you cannot tag people in photos, tag someone for a note, or view “news feeds”).

Myspace has an unstable infrastructure (we’re all use to the page crashes and unidentified errors), ugly design, and poor integration. IMHO, myspace it the thousand pound gorilla that was created poorly in the beginning. It’s gotten so big, that changing the infrastructure is difficult to do. They can’t implement the things as fast as facebook due to their popularity and due to the fact that they’re tied to a fat, ugly system. It’s like trying to move three thousand people from a raft, to a cruise ship… It just can’t be done. Moving them to dump they’re users in the water (aka it requires you to take a system down for a bit).

Rather than moving them (the users have to be in the water for a little bit), myspace is slowly trying to patch holes in their raft. They’re trying to turn the raft into a cruise ship…Tuff Luck.

Myspace… you’re only hope is this… admit that you don’t have a cruise ship… build one. Take the site down for a little bit and move everyone over to a cruise ship. Quit trying to make the cruise ship out of the raft. If you don’t… you’re going to sink. Or… people are going to dive off of your raft and swim to a cruise ship.

Do you get the point? I expect a response Mr. Murdoch.

      

Its 2:30am and I’m I’m just going to bed. I spent the last 4 hours working on a proposal that we may, or may not, get. And before I received it, someone else worked on it for an hour. As I was about to lay down to go to bed, I realized that I probably need to bring up two points.

Point One
I have three other proposals that are staring me in the face every day. And I need to finish them because proposals bring in money. Not immediately but eventually. The way it works is this: leads turn into meetings turn into proposals turn into sales which turn into money. It’s all a numbers game. So, when you realize that you don’t have anything going or that you’re not making enough money (in sales) it’s probably because you don’t have enough poles in the water (a good sentence since I’m at the lake). Don’t complain because you don’t have money, complain because you haven’t drummed up enough leads, went to enough meetings, or finished enough proposals.

Point Two
When you look at someone’s hourly rate, think about how much work goes into the work before the work even starts. I know… that’s confusing to think about, but I’ve already invested 4 hours into a proposal that I may get… If I get 25% of the work that I write proposals for, I would get 1 job out of every 4 proposals. If I took 4 hours to develop each proposal, It would take me 16 hours worth of work to get 1 job.

Other things to think about when developing your hourly rate: taxes, vacation, insurance, and other stuff that needs to be paid since you’re employer isn’t paying for you.

      

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I have a hard time on small stuff. I know… “don’t sweat the small stuff”… But I can’t help it. One that I ran into last week was trying to determine who should do simple data entry that nobody wanted to do. We had two programmers that were equal, paid equal, and had an equal work load.

The difference between a large company and a small company is that in a small company you have to wear many hats. Sometimes its the “visionary” hat and sometimes its the “trash man” hat. Large companies have a trash man set aside for cleaning, small companies have owners that are sick of seeing trash around the office.

The end of the story is this… I did the simple data entry that nobody wanted to do. And although I hated every second of it, I was reminded that sometimes I have to take off my “I have more important stuff to do” hat and wear my “things have to get done” hat.